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California man convicted of two murders and seven sexual assaults
A Los Angeles jury found David Pearce guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales. He was also convicted of raping seven additional women who testified at trial.
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A Los Angeles jury convicted David Pearce of first-degree murder in the November 2021 deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales. The same jury found him guilty of raping seven other women who testified during the trial. m. on November 13, 2021.
Detectives Jonathan Vander Lee and Calvin You later determined the men had also dropped Cabrales at Kaiser Permanente Hospital two hours later.
Investigation and digital evidence Christy Giles, 24, was pronounced dead from a drug overdose. Her husband, Jan Cilliers, used location data from her phone to trace her last movements to 8641 West Olympic Boulevard. Detectives arrived at the address shortly after midnight on November 14.
Hilda Marcela Cabrales, 26, remained on life support for several days before she died. Both women had attended a warehouse party the previous night.
Testimony at trial Seven women testified that Pearce sexually assaulted them.
Prosecutors presented the testimony as evidence of a pattern of conduct. The jury returned its verdicts after hearing the combined evidence from the homicide and sexual-assault counts.
